Honours and Awards

Bronze Medal at UniNationals 2023 (Division 1)

The Deakin Men's Badminton team won the Division 1 Bronze Medal at the 2023 UniNational Games in Australia. This is the first time that Deakin won a Division 1 medal in Badminton in it's history. As the Team Manager, it was dream from the begining when I started started trailing players, conducting training sessions, and finally managing the players during the games. 

Its should also be noted that this year was the first that a Women's team represented Deakin University in badminton and ended up 7th place in Division 1.

Champions : SCATS Student Traffic Data Innovation Challenge

Our team SafePath Innovators representing Deakin University *WON* 🏆 the SCATS Student Data Innovation Challenge - a premier Research Competition, held across two days at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) premises in Sydney, Australia. Our team produced a highly scalable adaptive traffic signalling solution, aimed at improving the efficiency and safety across the global traffic network. It was also an exciting opportunity to collaborate with Transport for NSW, iMOVE Australia, and SCATS to contribute positively to the transportation systems using advanced Internet-of-Things (IoT), machine learning, and distributed computing techniques.

Second Best Presentation in School of Information Technology

Selected as the runner-up for Best Research presentation at the 2023 Annual HDR Conference of School of Information Technology, Deakin University (Novemeber 2023). As a result, I was able to present my work at the Industry Forum as well.

Among Top 4 in School of Information Technology

Selected among the Top 4 at the 3-Minute Thesis Competiton in 2022 at School of Information Technology, Deakin University. I was the only first year PhD candidate who was selected among the Top-4 with rest being final year candidates.

Best Research Paper Award

Received the best research paper award for paper titled "Event Driven Share Price Forecasting based on Change based Impact Analysis" authored by my self, Chathurya Bombuwela, Ravindi Kumaranayaka, Kaushika Kahatapitiya, Dr. Upeksha Ganegoda, and Dr. Isuru Manawadu at the 7th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR) 2022.

ARC Postgraduate Research Scholarship

Scholarship offered by the Australian Resrach Council for the completion of the PhD research work investigating techniques for Adaptive Context Caching.

Best Intiative Award

University Relations of 99X Technology initiative was awarded again for the 3rd consecutive year in 2020 the Best Initiative of which I contributed as an Initiative Lead.

Best Intiative Award

University Relations initiative of 99X Technology was awarded the best initiative for the year 2019 of which I contributed as an Initiative Lead.

Valedictorian of the Faculty of Information Technology

The award is presented to the most outstanding all-round student who have best performed in both academic and extra-curricular activities amongst all the graduates from the Faculty of Information at the General Convocation 2019.

Gold Medal for the Best Academic Performance for BSc(Hons) in Information Technology in 2019

I was placed the top of the class (Batch 14) for the Bachelors (Honours) in Information Technology based on the overall academic performance during semester examinations from 2014-2019. This marks a significant milestone in my academic career as it could been as the penultimate reward for the the planning and hard work been put to achieve a goal this was thought to achieveable when I first stepped in to the university. 

Mercantile Quiz Championships

As the quiz team member of 99X Technology (later the Captain), I contributed to achieving the following awards for the company in mercantile quiz competitions.

• IT Industry Champions : Bristol Brain Battles 2020

• IT/Software Industry Champions : Young Professional Forum (YPF) Quiz Masters

• IT/Software Industry 1st Runner Up : Glitz Biz Quiz 2019

• 3rd Runner Up : Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Quiz Championship 2019

Asia Pacfic Regional Award for Product Growth - iGE

A true proud moment being the Manager for iGE operation for AIESEC Colombo South for term 16/17 and having achieved this unexpected prestigious awards. Again, the dedication and commitment of all team members and leaders, this award has been the pinnacle of our efforts. 

Growing Disruptively Excellence Award iGE 

A true proud moment being the Manager for iGE operation for AIESEC Colombo South for term 16/17 and having achieved this prestigious awards. Through many ups and downs, commitment from all the members and of course the support for VP iGET, we manged to come through and achieve to be the best. 

Most Outstanding Organizing Committee

Organizing Committee of Lead CS 3.0 was awarded the Most Outstanding Organizing Committee of AIESEC Colombo South (University of Moratuwa) at the Awards Night 2017. It was in fact, very deserving considering the amount of hard work been put in to successfully conclude a 3 day residential conference with around 150+ participants. The conference introduced many and innovative features including a Mobile application and the 'Go Green' based conference theme in order to deliver a truly life changing experience for the participants. 

1st Runner Up HACKiNTRA 2016

HACKiNTRA is a 12 hour overnight Hackathon organized by the Jaffna Univeristy of Sri Lanka, where team CodeX competed. We received the 1st runner up position among the Top 10 Finalists at the competition where we implemented iCare - a wearable health monitoring, detection and remote response system. The system with the wearable unit and is based on the concept of "Internet of Things" (IoT). 

Champions of Innovations Competition on Transportation Engineering

The innovative concept of Real Time monitoring, analyzing and prompt response system for the highway through a device and capturing, storing and providing the analysis capability for those data was provided by the System we implemented. 

Finalist of Multiple All-Island Competitions

• Finalist - Dialog Gaming Hackathon (organized by Dialog Axiata PLC) - for Chemistry Tutor App

• Finalist - HackaDev 3.0 (organized by UNDP Sri Lanka) - for iWaM

• Finalist - Inspire Sri Lanka 2017 (organized by Mobitel Innovation Center) - for iWaM

• Finalist - Sampath Green Inventors 2017 (organized by Sampath Bank PLC) - for iWaM

• Finalist - TED Hack 2017 (organized by hSenid Mobile) - for iWaM

• Finalist - MedHack2017 (organized by SLT-Mobitel-Ministry of Health) - for iCare

• Finalist - Mobitel nbIOT Hack 2018 (organized by Mobitel PLC) - for cElectroMeter

• Semi Finalist - Disrupt Asia 2017 (organized by ICTA) - for Sapphires.lk

• Finalist - Angle Hack 2017- for Sapphires.lk

• National Finalists - John-Keels X (organized by John Keels PLC) - for Adora.lk

• Semi Finalists - Code Sprint 3.0 Start-Up Battle (organized by IIT) - for Adora.lk